The "Research Centre for the Comparative History of Religious Orders" (FOVOG) is a research platform and scientific framework which organizes and coordinates multiple research projects on the history of monasteries and monastic and religious orders in the Middle Ages.

The FOVOG maintains a library for the history of religious orders including numerous materials from the Saxon State Library - Sächsische Landesbibliothek - Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB). View catalog.